Adjunct Therapy
Augment your counseling sessions with whole brain, body-based techniques to help your progress toward emotional health.
Often in counseling, despite the expert help of a counselor or psychologist, people find themselves stuck and unable to release entrenched, habitual patterns of thinking and behavior. Compulsions, emotional trauma, long-standing behavioral patterns, and PTSD can encompass complex obstacles that resist many methods used in the counseling process.
Working in partnership with your counselor, we augment your therapy sessions with the whole-body, integrative techniques of somatic therapy to help you move past difficult points in your progress toward emotional health. Somatic methods release and rewire unhealthy, traumatized neural networks to allow healthy emotional patterns to emerge, thus supporting your talk therapy and moving you forward more quickly and easily. Somatic therapy has a the long history and has slowly evolved into a prominent therapeutic method. Learn more: The Foundations of Somatic Healing | 1880 - Present.
Brain Gym® and related somatic modalities have, in many cases, proven to be more effective than Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), both popular methods used by counselors. Whereas CBT primarily involves the cognitive centers in the upper regions of the brain and EMDR mainly engages the lateral, or left/right, brain body functioning, whole body somatic methods rewire the neural networks within the three dimensions of the brain-body system. This body-based approach of somatic integration creates change in the deepest areas of the brain/body system through a three dimensional, visceral experience, which enables you to gently dissolve neural patterns of habitual thinking and behaviors and more easily incorporate healthy behaviors and emotions into your life.
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CBT
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thought patterns and self-defeating behaviors to improve emotional regulation and develop personal coping strategies that target current problems.
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EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing uses bilateral (left↔︎right) sensory stimulation to eliminate upsetting thoughts and feelings. You are asked to recall distressing images while a therapist directs you in side-to-side eye movements or hand tapping.
Clients who have been stuck in deep-seated, hard to break patterns and who have chosen to bring body-based somatic techniques into their therapy process have improved exponentially, made better decisions as they restructured their lives, and returned to work more quickly after years of emotional disability. By bringing whole body integrative methods into your counseling process, you have the benefit of both the specialized experience of your counselor combined with my expertise in creating deep change through somatic integration. Learn more about my approach to somatic healing: The Highpoint Method.
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By bringing whole body integrative movement into your counseling program, you have the benefit of both the specialized experience of your counselor combined with my expertise in creating deep change through somatic re-integration.